Celebrants around the world honor the day in a myriad of wacky ways, including using actual pies to try to calculate the number Pi.

The topics were the number Pi in mathematics, the microscopic organism Volvox colony in biology, and the black hole in physics.

While the Fib is based on the Fibonacci sequence, the cadae is based on the number Pi.

Pi (named after the number Pi) is the most clever of the Boblins and is always building inventions (which can sometimes malfunction and cause trouble).

Wood is an American philosophy student who interrupts a bracing lecture from John Hurt with the exhortation: “I believe in the number Pi!”

There were no secret messages from the makers of the universe encoded in the transcendental number Pi and no signals game from a distant star welcoming us to the United Federation of Planets.

In The Great Pyramid (1859), Taylor argued that the numbers Pi and the golden ratio may have been deliberately incorporated into the design of the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza.

In the 1888 edition of his book The Logic of Chance John Venn wrote a chapter on The conception of randomness that included his view of the randomness of the digits of the number Pi by using them to construct a random walk in two dimensions.